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Monday Layout Challenge: In The Kitchen

This layout challenge really has me motivated this week. One of my favorite rooms in my home is my kitchen. I love to be in there spending time with family, eating our meals and I love to bake and cook. This week’s challenge will make you think more about your kitchen, it is up to you the direction that you take it. Today’s Challenge: Your layout challenge for this week is to enter the world of cooking and baking. Enter your kitchen and spend time looking at it. Find your favorite tools and appliances for cooking, find your favorite meal, … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge: A Day in the Life

We are back for another great Monday Layout Challenge, and this one is all about you. Scrapbook a layout all about a day in your life. I am really excited to present the details of today’s challenge: Your layout challenge for this week is to take a good hard look into your typical day. Choose a weekend day or a weekday. Scrapbook about the details of getting up, getting ready for work and coming home. Scrapbook about getting kids up in the morning, breakfast on the table, lunches prepared for school and getting the kids on the bus. Scrapbook about … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge – Song Lyrics

We are back for another great Monday Layout Challenge, and this one is a fun one. I had a blast with last week’s challenge, and actually got about ten layouts done using some of my old stuff. It was great, and I found a whole bunch of new things to do with some of it. I will be putting articles up on that later. Did you use some of your old tools and make new layouts with them? Tell me if you found a new way to use something. I am really excited to present today’s today’s challenge: Your challenge … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge – Use an Old Supply

Hope your longer weekend was great and that you got plenty of scrapbooking in. Even if you didn’t, I hope you got a chance to participate in last weeks layout challenge. We are back again for another week, in the Monday Layout Challenge. Were you able to get your dollar store stuff last weekend? Did you create a cute layout using some new items that would not normally have been used in scrapbooking. I spent $20 at the dollar store getting some non-scrapbook related things and an additional $5 on actual scrapbook supplies. Using a little of almost everything I … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge: The Dollar Store

Hope your week was great and that you got plenty of layouts completed. We are back for another week, in the Monday Layout Challenge. Did you get your pet pages done last week? I did an adorable layout of my new puppy and his funny way of falling asleep after a bath when he’s all wrapped in a towel. I will try to upload it soon. I am doing the weekly layout challenge for several reasons. One, I want you to get your photographs out of storage devices and onto your layouts, and two I want to help you brainstorm … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge – School Layouts and More

Recently I realized that I hadn’t done many scrapbooking pages on my children’s school activities. I have the photographs, the layouts just haven’t been created. So I challenged myself to get to work on those. And I’m not just doing traditional pages, I am branching out, or if you will “stepping outside the box” a bit and trying to find some unique perspectives. I just want the layouts to make the photographs really be the focus as well as trying to complete layouts that are different than the norm. This week’s challenge for all of you, is to pull out … Continue reading →

Finding Layout Inspiration Online

Having inspiration strike you, which in turn gets you scrapbooking layout after layout, is the finest way to get those pages done. However, not everyone knows there are dozens of places on the Internet to find great inspiration. Many scrapbook sites have these terrific galleries in which you can browse by topics, products and more. These are my favorite layout inspiration spots on the Internet. Two Peas in a Bucket – My favorite gallery by far. This website is so comprehensive that you can shop, talk and browse gallery masterpieces all in once place. They have their own set of … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge: 30 Minute Layout

Scrapbooker’s often get into a rut when it comes to specific pictures. They envision this amazing layout, and the inspiration to create it just never comes. My hopes with the Monday challenges are that you get the pictures out of the boxes and onto the pages and not put so much focus on elaborate layouts. Today’s challenge is to create a layout in which you spend no more than 30 minutes on it. In order to create a layout in 30 minutes, it might be easier for you to use a sketch or scraplift from a message board. This is … Continue reading →

Completed Layout Storage Ideas From a Stacker (1)

Are you a stacker? In other words, do you let your layouts pile up before you get them into your albums? Many scrapbookers do this because they want to keep their layouts in order, without having to disassemble a scrapbook album each time they complete a layout. Often this is just an easier way to keep layouts in order during final assembly, rather than having to separate pages in the album to make your layouts fit. Keeping layouts in order is especially a problem for those that use 3-ring binders, and post bound albums, because layouts are usually completed outside … Continue reading →

Use Household Items to Help Create Layouts

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I was just working on a layout this past weekend and I wanted to create a half circle out of patterned paper for the layout background. My circle cutter was too small for the job, so I started looking around my house for something that I could use as a template for the semi-circle. I was amazed with the variety of things I found around my house that I would be using to help me scrapbook. I’d like to share some of my discoveries with you. Plates and Platters. A large platter is what gave me just the right curve … Continue reading →